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advise the general manager of the san francisco public utilities commission with a three-year renewal option for the san francisco headstart at the southeast community facility. h, a staff recommendation to accept work performed by ntk construction, increase in the contract value, for larger than expected quantities of soil filled for the solo cap, for a total contract amount of almost $1.50 million, with a total contract duration of 127 consecutive calendar days and author is a final payment in the amount of almost 89,000 $500 to the contractor. i, approve a transfer of funds form -- and from what to
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enterprise water system improvement program funded projectcu cuw384, tesla treatmet facility project to water enterprises' water system improvement program funded project cuw364, lawrence livermore water quality improvement projects to fund the proposed modification. president crowley: colleagues, anyone that you want to pull specifically?
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ok. moved and seconded. all of those in favor, please signify by saying aye. any public comment? moving on, michael. clerk: you are now into the regular business calendar. item nine, a discussion and possible action to suspend world no. 6 of the rules of order of the san francisco public utilities commission to allow for the election of officers at a duly notice to meeting other than the first regular meeting after the first day of august. >> commissioners, this august 1 date was chosen because that was the date that the commissioners expire. we're still in that 60-day period, and i would recommend that we suspend a rule to the highest state of october -- to
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the first day of october. it would change it for now. what i think we would want to do is come back in october and revisit it. president rohcrowley: colleagues, i will move that. you might want to read rule 6, michael, as it has been amended. clerk: certainly. after the first day of august each year, they show the let president and vice president of the commission, each to serve for a one-year term. it is an eligible to serve consecutive 1-year term.
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-- ineligible. each and any of these may be suspended by order of the majority of members of the commission if entered upon the minutes of the commission. it could be that you suspend this rule and move the election by motion to the first meeting after the first of october. president crowley: commissioners? so move korea all of those in favor of suspending this role -- so move. all of those in favor? clerk: mr. president, an agenda item 10, conduct a public
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hearing on the public health goals for the direct water quality division director to submit a letter to the california department of public health, documenting that such a hearing has been held. >> good afternoon, commissioners. i and the water quality division director. my name is -- i am here to present results of the 2010 report. california law requires that we triannual report. if there is not a california health care of all, we are required to use the federal. ú)íd9whr-- health-care bowl. healbvth0wiñc]- -- health caree are required to use the federal. we're required to submit a port
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by june 30 and to the response of public comment on this report, which is why we are here right now. ?'this diagram to a relationship -- give you a relationship. generally speaking, if we had a rather mature a limit of 100, we want to make sure we do not violate it. the public health goal is generally much lower than the regulatory. we will talk about arsenic. roughly about 1/10,000. i also want to note that out of the 95 contaminants' that we have to monitor -- contaminants
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that we have to monitor, we wanted to be conservative. we did not have a problem technically with arsenic. arsenic is a naturally occurring element from a number of potential sources, including runoff, industrial sources, treated wood, and you can also see it in some chemicals. the potential health risk is a carcinogen and also does adverse environmental effects. -- has adverse environmental effects. you can see that we cannot even measure it. it is such an incredibly small number that you would not be able to see that it was there or not.
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we have done some special studies, pimm and we saw one at a high level of 2.6. in terms of our mitigation, we have a chemical quality control system, and we will do analysis of this treatment chemicals, so if we get chlorine or something else, -- we also have a watershed management program. where arsenic could potentially get into a water system. one contaminant that i
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mentioned, this is a diagram of customers. the blue part is ours. we have taken a number of actions. this was to remove thousands of them, so we are well out. this was accelerated by the meter reading program. the federal government allows a 8% leg. in california, is 0.25%, and that was january of this year. we have also been involved in other programs. this is also to take a look at the pilot program, finding
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faucet's that did not have lived in them. that program from the commission goes on and continues to this day. some of the health effects, the regulatory limit is 15. we did not detect it in any of the source waters before, as i mentioned. the main issue is up to-control, and to use lead free prices were possible. california law is going to be the lead free version.
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this will be improving. this is the law that mandated that the level go down, so we were to to get that, and the current legislation right now, instead of this california but a national standard, this is not something at 8%. we also have testing for a nominal fee. we will provide testing for free. so, in summary, we are in compliance with all of the regulatory standards. we believe that this is trying to figure out what the sources are, and arson and, again, this
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is something we wanted to report to you. a recommendation is that you send a letter to the state department. thank you. danica speaking, you just use regulatory compliance. we have seen arsenic but at very, very low levels. we said we found in a very, very few samples. it is extremely rare, and we are not concerned about it.
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we have reported in the past, and that is another reason. president crowley: commissioners? commissioner vietor: i do not know if you need a resolution, but i would like to talk about the letter. to write a letter supporting the legislation, either at the state currently or with compliance. >> there is the letter that the general manager submitted, so we are -- commissioner vietor: a resolution of some such, i think it would be good.
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do we need a motion on this? uh-huh. president crowley: i think we should move item 10. do we need a resolution on that? clerk: we do not need to have that in order for the puc. president crowley: then i would just move the resolution. before we close this debate -- clerk: we have no speaker cards. president crowley: seeing that there is no public comment, all of those in favor, say aye. next item, please. clerk: by a number 11, a
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discussion and possible action to approve a san francisco operations and maintenance plan for the san francisco sewer water system to address sanitary sewer overflows, which applies only to be approximately 1 mile of sanitary sewage-only surprise in san francisco. -- pipes in san francisco. >> good afternoon, commissioners. i am with waste water. this is an operations and maintenance plan. we have to have this as part of our permit. i have my collection system manager with me, mr. harris, and he has a wonderful map showing where these areas are, and he can answer any questions.
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so this operations plan is required by the state and specifically applies to areas delineated by the map compaq about 5000 linear together. -- delineated by the map, about 5000 linear altogether. >> can you point out what that might be? >> that is the point. it covers 5000 linear feet of sewer. we will have more sanitary systems in the future, but we are required by the state, since we do have some, and the whole
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plan is of these on the map. >> 5000 linear feet, a couple in the presidio, lake merced. >> that is correct. the registry is i actually on the border -- is actually on the border. you're exactly right, those are the areas. >> f.a.q, tom. he highlighted it. all right. -- president crowley: colleagues, anything on item 11? ok, any public comment? clerk: we have no speaker comments. president crowley: seeing none, and will entertain a motion.
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all in favor, say aye. clerk: mr. president, item 12, a discussion and possible action to authorize the general manager of san francisco public utilities commission to execute on behalf of the city and county of san francisco a memorandum of agreement with the united states department of the interior, national park service, in yosemite national park, for an amount not to exceed $30 million in with a duration of five years to provide for watershed protection, collaborative environment and stewardship studies, and security for the yosemite national park watersheds that supply water to the san francisco regional water system. >> there are a couple of things that are different about this agreement. this was reconstructed around the filtration. this time, there are actually more things that we do.
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it is still absolutely essential. there is also the environmental stewardship component, so it is threefold. when the original agreement was signed, that was about $2.75 million per year, which was about $3.50 billion over the last several years, plus special studies. the security agreement, there was the first one from 2007- 20008. and then we have come to vot-- 5 million has grown to about $5.20 million per year, so the $30 million per year over the next five years, which assumes inflation and growth in those
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programs over the next five years, so that is when we get to the cumulative $30 million, and there is a relationship with these other areas. president crowley: ok, colleagues? second. before we vote on this, any public comment? >> just one comment, commissioners. at times, we are criticized >> $30,000. a lot of things happen there, including the environment and stewardship, and that is more like $5 million per year, and
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that is not categorized as rent, it is categorized as mou. >> i have participated in an annual meeting with park staff, and there was a roomful of people, about 30 parks of, and about 30 puc -- about 30 parks staff. >> i was at yosemite a few weeks ago, and i had dinner. the park superintendent for the last 15 years was in charge of a seashore, and before that, he was a deputy, so he knows a lot about the city and is very comfortable in the interaction that seems foreign to some people, but he is comfortable .
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president crawly: colleagues, that has been moved and seconded. all of those in favor, please signify by saying aye. opposed? clerk: mr. president, item 13, a discussion and possible action to approve the amendment number two to watch the enterprise, water system improvement program funded agreement no. cs-8578, for a total amount of 160 dozen dollars with a time extension of two years, nine months, for a total duration of five years, three months. president crowley: colleagues, anything on 13? ok, any public comment? hearing none and seeing none, i
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will take a demotion. all in favor, please signify by saying aye. no. 14. clerk: a discussion of possible action to approve the amendment number one to waste water and apprises cip funding agreementcs cs-860, tunnel engineering services for the sunnyvaldale a soleil-sur proje, with jacobs associates. president crowley: but colleagues, anything on 14? ok, any public comment? hearing in seeing none, i will entertain a motion. so moved. and seconded.
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those in favor of item 14, please signify by saying aye. opposed? clerk: mr. president, item 15, a discussion and possible action to approve the plans and specifications and award wastewater enterprises the amount of $37 million plus to the lowest qualified responsible and responsive bidder for installation of approximately 4,000 feet of 8 feet by 11 feet interior diameter secret tunnel -- sewer tunnel. president crowley: colleagues, and, it? any public comment? harry and seeing none, i will entertain a motion. moved and seconded korea all of those in favor, please signify
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by saying aye. -- moved and seconded. all of those in favor, please signify by saying aye. item 16. clerk: mr. president, item 16, a discussion and possible action to approve the plans and specifications and a warm water and apprises water system improvement program funded contract number2607 for modifications of existing chlorination facilityd -- echloraminagtiotion facility. president crowley: commissioners, any questions? clerk: we have no speaker cards. president crowley: any public comment?
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hearing and seeing none, a will entertain a motion. moved and seconded. clerk: mr. president, the next item on the closed session items, and would you like to call for public comment on any item in closed session? president crowley: any public comment on any item in closed session? hearing and seeing none, it has been moved to assert attorney- client privilege. moved and seconded. all of those in favor, please signify by saying aye. clerk: mr. president, if you allow me to read the items. a consultation. we will now move into closed session.
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>> we are back. commissioner crowley: ok, commissioners, we are back in session. item 19, there was no action. item 20, there was no action. so with that, i will make -- i will entertain a motion regarding whether to disclose discussion during closed session. it has been moved and seconded not to disclose. all those in favor? opposed? ayes have it. any public comment? ok, item 23. i really commissioner moran -- i believe commissioner moran has something to say. and then with edgerton with a
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moment of silence for ann schneider. -- we adjourn with a moment of silence. that will conclude our moment of silence. colleagues, any other new business before us today? >> yes, i think we should wish mike a happy birthday. commissioner crowley: our secretary, michael house's birthday? 21? happy birthday, michael. >> thank you. commissioner crowley: we do have a notice of canceled meeting. do you want to read that into the record, or do we need to? >> that is true. the regular meeting of tuesday august 24 has been canceled,u the notice has been posted since july 23, so there is an
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awareness, so our next regular meeting will be the regular meeting of september 14. commissioner crowley: thank you. >> as was mentioned a couple times earlier, we have a lot of environmental review for the planning commission this fall. we may end up under the special sessions. but we do not know the dates yet. you. adjourn. ok, we have moved and seconded. all those in favor to adjourn? >> aye. >> aye. commissioner crowley: thank you.